Books by Janet Morgan
The Secrets of Rue St Roch : Intelligence Operations behind Enemy Lines in the First World War
This is the account of an extraordinary espionage operation in the Great War. It is also the human story of those men and women who became involved, both soldiers and civilians. In 1917 a young British captain based In Paris recruited two unlikely agents to the Allied cause : one, a middle aged woman of good family from Luxembourg, and the other an intrepid and exotic Belgian by the name of Baschwitz Meau, well known for his numerous escapes from German camps. Both were to play crucial roles in one of the most remarkable military intelligence operations, hitherto undocumented.
This is a story about moral choices and the nature of courage; about the difference between information and knowledge; about working underground and outside the rules; about the discovery, in extreme circumstances, by conventional men and women of what it was possible for them to do. It is, in fact, a story about finding things out.
UK Publication Date: August 2004
UK & Commonwealth: Penguin Press
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